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About the new forum.

I HOPE you've all noticed we're now on vBulletin instead of PhpBB. We've talked about making this move for a long time -- years in fact. We decided to make this move for a multitude of reasons, mostly for for your sake. Our install of PhpBB was heavily modified over the years, and due to how that system works most of the mods needed to be installed manually. Some stuff worked, some didn't, those that didn't needed to be uninstalled. Over time these uninstalls took their toll on the code...a lot of stuff broke.

Now we're on vBulletin and while it has it's flaws it's a lot better than PhpBB. Downside is this is all new to me: New Admin Control Panel to learn, new permissions to figure out, new options/settings to setup. This is going to take some time to learn and fix so please be patient. Also please let me know of any issues or errors you find.

The style of the forum is the default right now because I didn't have the time for personal reasons. Next week I have spring break, so I will have plenty of time to create a custom theme. This is the theme I'll be using as a model of sorts for how I want the forums to look: http://themeforest.net/item/metro-a-...review/3555714 It won't look exactly like that by any means, but it will have the same flat style like the rest of the website.

The one thing I noticed right now is that uploading avatars seems to change whatever you upload to a jpg regardless of what type of file it is. Which, as you can see, makes my current one look kinda ugly. [Tried it with another one too, produced the same thing.]

The one thing I noticed right now is that uploading avatars seems to change whatever you upload to a jpg regardless of what type of file it is. Which, as you can see, makes my current one look kinda ugly. [Tried it with another one too, produced the same thing.]

I think this may be due to the image processing library being used by default (GD), which is used to convert uploads to thumbnails. I just changed it to a more robust library called ImageMagick...however I'm not sure if the path I set is the correct path. So if you would try to reupload your avatar and see if it's better, or even works at all.

Hmm...I uploaded my other avatar and it went up, but was still jpegged. Decided to see if hosting it offsite would help, but then it told me it was too big. Tried with several smaller ones and it didn't work unless I uploaded directly.

Then, though, I noticed that it seems to jpeg them if the size is more than 19.5 KB. I uploaded this one just now that's around 17 KB and it seems to be fine. Is it possible to up the KB size a bit, perhaps? If not that's cool, but that's just what I noticed when poking around.

Hmm...I uploaded my other avatar and it went up, but was still jpegged. Decided to see if hosting it offsite would help, but then it told me it was too big. Tried with several smaller ones and it didn't work unless I uploaded directly.

Then, though, I noticed that it seems to jpeg them if the size is more than 19.5 KB. I uploaded this one just now that's around 17 KB and it seems to be fine. Is it possible to up the KB size a bit, perhaps? If not that's cool, but that's just what I noticed when poking around.